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LAST EDITION
ONE CENT
ROCKEFELLER STEERS THE PRESS
SAYS REPORT OF INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
TEACHERS WAITING FOR ARRIVAL OF MAYOR
THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL.4, NO. 282 Chicago, Friday, August 27, 1915 3!
LABOR GOES TO BAT
FOR THE TEACHERS
John H. Walker, President of the Illinois Federation of,
Labor, Says Big Business Is Back of the Attack on
Organized School Teachers Will Fight to
a Finish for Them.
John H. Walker, president of the
Illinois Federation of Labor, issued
the following statement this after
noon on the war against the Teach
ers' Federation, started by Jacob M.
Loeb, member of the school board:
BY JOHN H. WALKER
"The present attack being made on
the Chicago Teachers' Federation is
simply an effort on the part of Big
Business and the employing interests
of this state to accomplish by this
meaas the. thing they failed to accom
Sgsh in the rejcfentjBiMpn .of the JJp
nois state legislature, and that is to
eliminate absolutely any influence
that the people might have in our
schools and the school system in Illi
nois at the present time and to put
the school system and its manage
ment and direction completely in con
trol of the interests through their
toolss
"The resolutions made this clear
and they are much more far-reaching
than appear on the surface. They
make clear that no teacher will be
'eligible o teach in the nubile. scBgoJi
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